We don’t usually cover college baseball here, but this story is pretty interesting.

All-American closer Corey Knebel has been suspended by the University of Texas because, according to the Austin American-Statesman, “he willingly substituted his urine sample to protect a teammate from failing a drug test.”

Kirk Bohls and Mark Rosner of the Austin American-Statesmanreport that the teammate in question is likely pitcher Cameron Cox, who was suspended indefinitely for an undisclosed rules violation. And according to theDallas Morning News they got caught because the test came back positive for Adderal, which Knebel is approved to take despite it being on the NCAA’s list of banned substances.

So, seemingly Cox was worried about failing a drug test and got Knebel to swap in his urine sample, except he didn’t realize Knebel takes Adderal and that would show up on the falsified test. The lesson, as always: Be careful whose urine you borrow.

Texas is a big-time college baseball program and Knebel is five saves away from tying Huston Street‘s school and conference records.

I was disappointed when I read this and realized that the mental images evoked by the headline–two UT players hanging by their ankles over a vat of urine samples, perhaps with a lit candle slowly burning down next to the rope–was not what the story was about at all.

Boy was I confused after reading the American-Statesmen article. I was sitting here trying to figure out why you would ask someone who takes a prescription drug to swap urine with you to avoid detection of the said prescription drug.